Commercial Manager
- Recruiter
- Confidential
- Location
- Leicestershire
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 05 Jul 2021
- Closes
- 02 Aug 2021
- Sectors
- Manufacturing & Industrial
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Join the Samworth Brothers Family!
Working for Walker & Son, part of the Samworth Brothers Group, a 4th generation family business, we offer competitive benefits to all our colleagues including:
* Enhanced Pension Scheme
* Private Health Scheme
* Employee Discount Scheme
* Annual Pay Review and Profit related pay
* Training and Progression opportunities
The Opportunity
We have an opportunity for you to join our team as Commercial Manager - Morrisons/Aldi. Working in the fast- paced world of grocery retail, you'll take a leading role within the Commercial function & cross functional teams to build close & trusted relationships with your customers in order to deliver against sales & profit targets. Fundamental to success will be the effective management of NPD/EPD launches, end to end activity, promotional & pricing strategies.
* Deliver sales & profit in line with operating plan budgets.
* In partnership with the Category team, drive our share of the savoury pastry market by setting effective range strategies by format to optimise sales through clear understanding of the category dynamics & shopper motivations to purchase.
* Encourage new customers into the category, through team collaboration of new product development & interpreting market data to form actionable insight.
* Proactively drive customer efficiency improvements to drive our profit & maintain our competitiveness.
* Negotiate terms of trade: - long term deals, new costs for new products through to cost models.
* Ensure that all customer & business administrative tasks are completed accurately & in a timely manner.
The Right Person
We are one big team, and we look for people to join our business who want to work with others but take responsibility for doing their best every day to help to make the business a success.
* Experience of working within FMCG with Food Manufacturing and major retailer knowledge.
* Strong interpersonal & communications skills to build rapport; influencing commercial deals through commercial acumen and skilled contract negotiation.
* Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
* Proficient in analysing data, gaining insights & using these insights to inform decisions.
* Degree educated or equivalent preferred
* Full clean driving licence.
The Company
Walker and Son is part of the Samworth Brothers group, a long established and successful chilled food manufacturer and market leader, supplying cold pies to a majority of the major retailers. The business has experienced outstanding growth over the last few years whilst continuing to focus on delivering quality products and a first class service to our customers.
We take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.
Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative
Working for Walker & Son, part of the Samworth Brothers Group, a 4th generation family business, we offer competitive benefits to all our colleagues including:
* Enhanced Pension Scheme
* Private Health Scheme
* Employee Discount Scheme
* Annual Pay Review and Profit related pay
* Training and Progression opportunities
The Opportunity
We have an opportunity for you to join our team as Commercial Manager - Morrisons/Aldi. Working in the fast- paced world of grocery retail, you'll take a leading role within the Commercial function & cross functional teams to build close & trusted relationships with your customers in order to deliver against sales & profit targets. Fundamental to success will be the effective management of NPD/EPD launches, end to end activity, promotional & pricing strategies.
* Deliver sales & profit in line with operating plan budgets.
* In partnership with the Category team, drive our share of the savoury pastry market by setting effective range strategies by format to optimise sales through clear understanding of the category dynamics & shopper motivations to purchase.
* Encourage new customers into the category, through team collaboration of new product development & interpreting market data to form actionable insight.
* Proactively drive customer efficiency improvements to drive our profit & maintain our competitiveness.
* Negotiate terms of trade: - long term deals, new costs for new products through to cost models.
* Ensure that all customer & business administrative tasks are completed accurately & in a timely manner.
The Right Person
We are one big team, and we look for people to join our business who want to work with others but take responsibility for doing their best every day to help to make the business a success.
* Experience of working within FMCG with Food Manufacturing and major retailer knowledge.
* Strong interpersonal & communications skills to build rapport; influencing commercial deals through commercial acumen and skilled contract negotiation.
* Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
* Proficient in analysing data, gaining insights & using these insights to inform decisions.
* Degree educated or equivalent preferred
* Full clean driving licence.
The Company
Walker and Son is part of the Samworth Brothers group, a long established and successful chilled food manufacturer and market leader, supplying cold pies to a majority of the major retailers. The business has experienced outstanding growth over the last few years whilst continuing to focus on delivering quality products and a first class service to our customers.
We take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.
Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative